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...Lori (Streep) and Dave (Fred Ward) go along with the specialists' recommendations. But Dr. Abbasac (Allison Janney), a real Cruella DePill type, makes Robbie a tiny living lab for dubious experiments. Ann Beckett's bold teleplay charges doctors with being addicted to prescribing dangerous drugs to kids. The medical ordeal also acts as a mind-altering drug on Dave and Lori; it twists their love into rage and recrimination...
Taborsky's Kafka-like ordeal began in 1987, when as a student at the University of South Florida, he took an $8.50-an-hour lab-assistant job to help pay his tuition. He was assigned to a $20,000 project contracted by a subsidiary of Florida Progress, a local power company, to determine if bacteria can be used to extract ammonia from clinoptilolite, a clay used in filtering water. The clay, similar to Kitty Litter, absorbs ammonia from water and can be cleaned and used over and over...
...testimony that too often has promoted confusion over clarity. He has heeded the Supreme Court's ruling, in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, that judges should try to independently assess the scientific merits of expert testimony--and in so doing, he may hasten the resolution of a legal ordeal that has brought anxiety and psychological pain to many women...
...whole ordeal of making the film seems to have produced--dare we say it?--yet another Madonna, softer, more chastened. Or maybe just more calculated. The former shock mistress brought tears to Oprah Winfrey's studio audience when she described feeling her baby kicking on Mother's Day. Department stores may be pushing the dolled-up "Evita look," but Madonna has switched to pastel colors, soft makeup and a demure, Catholic-schoolgirl hairstyle. (She donned the Evita look for the film's Hollywood premiere, but otherwise, she says, "it's something for special occasions. You're not going...
...film is the logical culmination of one of Allen's obsessions: the classic American popular song. After commissioning music for his first three movies, he decided that creating original scores was "such an ordeal" that it was easier to pop in recordings of Gershwin and Porter standards--the music he grew up with and, he admits, never grew out of: "My interest in music ended with the music...